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$8 Glasses Sold at $160

dee — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:53:00 +0000

$8 glasses sold at $160. You may think the seller is an avaricious people. And for most of the time, we customers do not know the truth about the price of a pair of glasses. This is always a mystery to us. And only the employees in the glasses shop know the real situation in this industry.

A producer of glasses said the market price of the glasses might be a few hundred dollars, but the cost will be only tens of dollars in general. This industry is totally a low-cost and high-profit industry. The average pure profit of retailed glasses is more than 50%. From the consumer’s psychological point of view, the pursuit of the brand and price effects will lead to better selling of expensive glasses. Therefore, glasses in low price may not be well sold.

Traditionally, there are 3 steps in the process of glasses sales: an agent to manufacture, an agent to get and transport goods and an agent to sell the goods which has to do the retail business and the advertising. So if the glasses are sold at $8 originally, it is not strange that they sold $160 at the store since each of the three parts want to get their own profits.

It is understood that the industry of glasses are highly professional industry both in the material and the penetration of optics and optical technology. As an ordinary consumer, we may not learn more about the professional knowledge, so it is difficult for you to know the secret in the industry and cannot figure out if the price is too expensive. So they have no criterion for the customers to decide what kind of glasses is worth of the price. Fewer people get the understanding of glasses because this industry is related to some knowledge of optical and biology. The only source of their knowledge may be from the shop assistants, so if the shop assistants do not tell detailed information about the glasses, the customers may be cheated. That is unfair to the customers. They may pay more to the low-quality glasses.

But buying glasses online does not have so many problems. The producer does not have to transport the goods, nor do they have to rent a place to sell the glasses. So the price does not have to go higher. For example, some glasses on GlassesShop.com are $8 and they are of good quality. This brings benefits to our customers. And it is easy to conduct that you just stay at home and click the mouse, you can get your new stylish glasses in a few days.

Save a small cost on eyeglasses

dee — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:46:18 +0000

I wear eyeglasses. The pair of mine cost me a few hundred dollars, right? Oh, no, it is less than $30 — frames, lenses, and shipping.

Yes, they’re prescription glasses. Yes, they have the all-important antiglare coating. And, no, they’re not ugly plastic “cheaters” like they sell at the dollar store. In fact, they’re stylish metal-alloy frames with a blue coating.

I scored this deal from Zenni Optical, one of several Web outlets that sells prescription eyeglasses on the cheap–the really, really cheap.

Zenni, the only company I’ve tried thus far, offers a wide selection of frames, with prices ranging from $8-19, lenses included. All you need is your current prescription, which you can get from your optometrist.

Speaking of which, it took about a month for my order to arrive, during which time I received no updates or tracking number from the company. When I requested them, I got vague replies.

The glasses themselves look nice and seem perfect from a prescription standpoint. However, they pinch the heck out of one side of my nose, and I don’t know how to make the proper adjustments. That’s one point in favor of sticking with an optometrist: you get help with fit, repair, and so on.

What do you think? Are online eyeglasses the way to go, or should you trust your eyes only to the professionals?

I’m thinking it’s time to see how I look in a pair of Danny Gokey frames. Good singer, great eyewear.

My First Experience of Buying Glasses on the Internet

dee — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:42:22 +0000

Most of the time, I think it is fortunate that I have a pair of good eyes. But when I was a little girl, I really envied those kids who wore glasses. Because they had the chance to change their glasses now and then and in my opinion that was really cool. So when I grew up, I’d like to choose a pair of glasses to go with my cloth. That is fun.

The summer is coming. I love summer very much because I can wear my lovely dressed and min-skirt. What’s more, I have a lot of different styles of sunglasses. They are different colors and designs. But when I get a new T-shirt, jeans or skirt, I always find it’s difficult for me to find a pair of favorable glasses to wear. So it takes hundreds or even thousands of money of me to buy just sunglasses in summer. And I’m far from satisfaction.

So this summer, I determined to reduce that kind of payout. That does not mean I decide to stop buying sunglasses. That is too cruel and almost impossible for me. My decision is, to find the most reasonable price for each of the glasses.

How can I do that? That is the goal of every purchasing girl! Well, I have my own technique. A very important way is, to buy glasses on the Internet.

I have many experience of buying things on the Internet and really enjoy it. But it’s my first time to buy a pair of glasses on it. I opened my favorite website and search for sunglasses. To my surprise, there were thousands of information of sunglasses-much more than we can find in the shopping malls. They are different colors, different designs and made from different material. Some of them are really cheap and common. But what make me really exciting is, I just found the glasses I have seen that for hundreds of time in Jinying Shopping Center but didn’t buy them because of the high price. And they are 40% off!
I entered a shop seemed credible, and then checked the producing area of the glasses and some details of them. They are all accordant as the one in the shopping mall. So I decided to talk to the shopkeeper. She’s kind and warmhearted. She made some more description of the glasses, and even asked me of my dressing styles, hair and skin colors in order to give me some really helpful suggestions to choose the glasses. At the end, I decided to buy a pair of brown one and paid. She said she would send them tomorrow morning, and generally, I could get them in 3 days.
2 days later, I got the call of the express delivery clerk. I was too impatient to wait for my beloved glasses. When I got them, I found they are just the same as I imagined.

In the evening, I thanked the shopkeeper again and she told me she was glad that I like them. I put that shop in my favorite case, and just can’t wait for the next time to buy!

by X. D.